The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2018) Movie • Page 14

Little more than a cameo!

 

True

 

I’ll forever be grateful I was able to see this on the big screen

 

Wow

 

Cut what?

 

add 30 minutes and make it an even 4 tbh

 

As someone who was worried this would be overlong, it could easily have been longer. Not a wasted minute really

 

Yeah I have no idea what you could cut. Everything felt essential.

 

This was so good. There was a point around the Kennedy/Cuba stuff where I was worried I would get a little bored but man. The last hour or so of this was really incredible. The CGI bothered me a bit, not just the faces but the blood. I hate how CGI blood looks

 

Just found out Robbie Robertson wrote the main theme, p cool

 

The CGI blood on Sally Bugs was particularly distracting.

As far as what I’d cut? Honestly not too sure. I know I’m in the minority here.

 

Man Bronson really took me out of it for a second. Knew he was in it but it was still jarring for a second

 

I don’t think you can cut much.

 

Everything after Hoffa dies is sublime and you can’t cut a second of it, and it needs everything before it to balance well

 

The fish convo was so good

 

I really can't think of a second that I would cut, and I know this was already mentioned many times by other people, but I could even see adding some time to give Anna Paquin more than 2 lines / 6 words and flesh out her character a little more, get to see the situation from her character's side even just the tiniest bit.

Also, not that I am vouching for this thing to be 7 hours long, but I came away feeling like I could watch Joe Pesci on screen as Buffalino for easily 3½ more hours and not be bored. What a sublime and captivating performance.

 

Paquin is so great in this, and there’s plenty of criticism online of how little she’s in it, but in her limited presence her performance weighs even more and leaning too far into her perspective risks overly moralizing. She’s perfect, as she has been in basically everything since Margaret

 

Welp... This is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Holy shit.

 

I think Paquin not speaking much is the point? She’s almost like God watching and silently judging Frank.

 

Jesse Plemons also barely speaks so it was less egregious but generally speaking I get why people are kinda sick of movies where female characters are only wives or daughters which this certainly was, but nothing against this particularly just an annoying trope

 

more than anyone else in this, i was truly shocked to find out Pacino still had this in him

also, de niro’s blue eyes took me out more than the cgi lmao

 

also absolutely loved the copacabana easter egg

 

The only scene that was jarring to me was when De Niro beats that guy in the grocery store. That looked awkward as hell

 

The CGI de-aging worked fine for me. I noticed it at first, the same way I noticed Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff had old man makeup on for their old man scenes in True Detective Season 3, but I was able to just go with the story immediately. Having a character portrayed over time periods that are decades apart is always a tough proposition and I don't believe there is a clear best solution. I know when an entirely different actor is cast my brain will sometimes pick apart how different the two actors actually look.

The two scenes for me where the seams really showed were the grocery store beating you mention here, and also where De Niro's character climbs over and down some rocks to throw a gun into the river. Him gingerly climbing over the rocks very clearly looks like the movement of a 76 year old man.

There were a few random scenes where the CGI faces would look a little odd, but as other people have mentioned, De Niro's Fremen-like blue eyes and the CGI blood were far more distracting than the digital de-aging on the whole.

 

Honestly wild this made it into final cut without redoing it. It’s laughably bad.